Skinchanging

Skinchanging, also known as shapeshifting, is the art of assuming bestial aspects and changing ones body into that of an animal. Most commonly seen in people afflicted with lycanthropy, folk adept in dróðr magic are also known to be able to skinchange for short periods of time.

Distinctions

 * Beastfolk or lycanthropes are people who have been cursed and are forced to skinchange, and to take on the aspects of a specific beast with which the cursed is attached. Most beastfolk transform into a hybrid version of their human and animal forms.
 * Green priests and other practitioners of dróðr magic are known to be able to temporarily become beasts.
 * Rune wizards are known to be able to bend their forms, not through dróðr magic, but instead using the arcane magic of runes.